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Analysis of Public Health Inequities Using R Programming
Posted on April 8, 2019
R programming can help with a lot of tasks. In this blog post, I show you how it can help understand and visualize inequities in Baltimore with regards to poverty and violence.
The Canaries in the Coalmine
Posted on April 5, 2019 3 Comments
Anecdotes are not data, but they could be canaries in the coal mine that are still worth looking into. If we don’t do due diligence and look into them, what could happen? What could we delay or even miss out on doing?
Don’t Get Rid of Your Outliers Just Because
Posted on March 31, 2019 5 Comments
What happens when you get rid of your outliers? Depending on which outliers and how you chose to get rid of them, nothing might happen… Or you can royally screw things up.
The Student-As-a-Customer Model Will Be the End of Academia
Posted on March 20, 2019
More and more colleges and universities are treating students as customers, showing them how to push a button or fill in a formula without teaching them how to think and solve problems. I might be old school, but I’d rather train and mentor my future colleagues instead of just showing students how to push a button.
One-Way ANOVA Analyses, by Hand and in R
Posted on March 17, 2019 1 Comment
A student asked for help with a statistical analysis the other night, and I was happy to help. However, he threw me a curveball when he told me he needed to conduct an ANOVA test using only summary data. That is, all he had was the table of results (from a publication) and not the […]
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